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The White Black Sheep (Richard Barthelmess). One chivalrous gesture in defense of a lady accused of thieving, and Richard Barthelmess finds himself, a man in disgrace, engaged in battle with warring tribes of the Sahara Desert. The natives seize him, bury him to the neck in sand, fling their spears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

In the Mclancsian department of the Pacific Island collection, an assortment of 80 war clubs, most of them previously stored in the basement for lack of display space, are now on exhibition. Grass skirts, hand looms, and shark-teeth spears 16 feet long are also being shown. Some dancemasks made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEABODY MUSEUM ACQUIRES PRIMITIVE CURIOSITIES | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

In his determination to get the Orient out of Russia he moved his capital away from Moscow, built himself a Versailles, procured a Pompadour, and made hunting into a pageant, trotting out on horseback like a Bourbon, with ribbons, hounds, bugles, spears, and streamers. Because the rug showed a hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rug | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Javelin throwing is one of the oldest forms of athletic competition known to man. It traces back to the spear throwing days of the Vikings when javelins were thrown from ship to ship as implements of warfare. Even further back, as long ago as 400 B. C., historians tell us...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIKKOLA SEES EASTERN SUPREMACY IN JAVELIN | 5/19/1926 | See Source »

TINSEL?Charles Hanson Towne?Appleton ($2). Author Towne has been moved to chronicle a Midland social climber; how she scrambled as high as Newport and Palm Beach, barked her plump shins and returned at last to the shade of the family awning factory in Eureka. Her son, daughter and husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Gladstone v. Disraeli | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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